Texas 2021 87th Regular

Texas House Bill HB3382 Introduced / Bill

Filed 03/09/2021

                    87R10491 JXC-D
 By: Rogers H.B. No. 3382


 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 AN ACT
 relating to the notification of a landowner by a notification
 center of a planned excavation.
 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 SECTION 1.  Section 251.153(c), Utilities Code, is amended
 to read as follows:
 (c)  Not later than two hours after the time the notification
 center receives a notice of intent to excavate from an excavator or
 from a different notification center, the notification center shall
 notify:
 (1)  each member operator that may have an underground
 facility in the vicinity of the proposed excavation operation; and
 (2)  each owner of land in the proposed area of
 excavation.
 SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.